I’ve just recently learned about Mozy, a $5/month unlimited off-site backup solution. Yesterday I purchased, downloaded, installed, and began backing up — all in about 5 minutes.
Although I have more than 1TB of data, and it will probably take more than 2 months to completely upload everything, I think this is a great backup solution. It’s really meant more for certain important files or folder, rather than EVERYTHING (what I’m doing), just like any other online (read: slow) backup solution.
Mozy is even cheaper than Amazon’s S3 with Jungledisk (in most cases) and SUPER easy to buy, setup, and schedule backups. It includes preset “Backup Sets” which make it easy to backup hard-to-find data; such as Mail accounts, Addressbook data, Bookmarks, etc. You can also access your data from any web browser, anywhere in the world, directly from Mozy’s web site.
** 8/26/08 Update: I’ve canceled Mozy! Too slow, they’ve never updated the Mac software which is horrible, and the restore function is SUPER slow – if it ever works. Too bad, but I guess you get what you pay for.
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Try CrashPlan – http://www.crashplan.com – you can backup your data off-site for no monthly fees, and because you can “seed” your backup – you can do it in a few days instead of months.
By the way, average upstream is around 500kps, so at that rate, you’d bebacking up for 6.5 months!
The math on 6.5 months!
Well, I have 1mb upload, so it should take around 3 months.
The difference between crashplan (which i do recall seeing at mac expo) is that crashplan is more for off-site to another computer you own.
With Mozy, it’s their servers for UNLIMITED storage at $5/month. The same service with Crashplan (and Crashplan Central – Crashplan’s servers) would be over $845 per year (!!!) for the amount of data I’m backing up!
I am interested in the “seed” – what’s that all about?
On the subject of file backup, sharing and storage …
Online backup is becoming common these days. It is estimated that 70-75% of all PC’s will be connected to online backup services with in the next decade.
Thousands of online backup companies exist, from one guy operating in his apartment to fortune 500 companies.
Choosing the best online backup company will be very confusing and difficult. One website I find very helpful in making a decision to pick an online backup company is:
http://www.BackupReview.info
This site lists more than 400 online backup companies in its directory and ranks the top 25 on a monthly basis.
backupreview.info is a cool site, if you have a PC. there is no mention of mac backup software (besides mozy). it would be really nice if you guys made a Mac section.
This site might be worth a look. Unlimited Storage and only 2.99 per month. http://www.datastorageunit.com